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Now as to the arts and crafts and their productions:
The imitative arts- painting, sculpture, dancing, pantomimic
gesturing- are, largely, earth-based; on an earthly base; they
follow models found in sense, since they copy forms and movements
and reproduce seen symmetries; they cannot therefore be referred
to that higher sphere except indirectly, through the
Reason-Principle in humanity.
On the other hand any skill which, beginning with the observation
of the symmetry of living things, grows to the symmetry of all
life, will be a portion of the Power There which observes and
meditates the symmetry reigning among all beings in the
Intellectual Kosmos. Thus all music- since its thought is upon
melody and rhythm- must be the earthly representation of the
music there is in the rhythm of the Ideal Realm.
The crafts, such as building and carpentry which give us Matter
in wrought forms, may be said, in that they draw on pattern, to
take their principles from that realm and from the thinking
There: but in that they bring these down into contact with the
sense-order, they are not wholly in the Intellectual: they are
founded in man. So agriculture, dealing with material growths: so
medicine watching over physical health; so the art which aims at
corporeal strength and well-being: power and well-being mean
something else There, the fearlessness and self-sufficing quality
of all that lives.
Oratory and generalship, administration and sovereignty- under
any forms in which their activities are associated with Good and
when they look to that- possess something derived thence and
building up their knowledge from the knowledge There.
Geometry, the science of the Intellectual entities, holds place
There: so, too, philosophy, whose high concern is Being.
For the arts and products of art, these observations may suffice.
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